ENG 1000C Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Open Hand

• School: St. John's University
• Department: ENG - ENGLISH
• Course: ENG 1000C
• Professor: Sammantha Mc Kalla

Document Summary

He looked very thin and he was not smiling. Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two and with a family to take care of! He needed a new coat and he had nothing to cover his cold hands. He was as quiet as a hunting dog when it is near a bird. His eyes looked strangely at della, and there was an expression in them that she could not understand. It was not anger, nor surprise, nor anything she had been ready for. He simply looked at her with that strange expression on his face. Jim, dear, she cried, don"t look at me like that. I had my hair cut off and sold it. I couldn"t live through christmas without giving you a gift. You don"t know what a nice what a beautiful nice gift i got for you. You"ve cut off your hair? asked jim slowly. He seemed to labor to understand what had happened.